Highlights of my Day... Monday, December 8

1. I met Son Tae Jin!!! For those of you who have NO idea of who he is, here, let me enlighten you and culture you. Tae Jin just so happens to be a Taekwondo pro star here in Cheonan, winning a gold medal in the China 2008 Olympics and he just happens to be a university student here at my school, Dankook… and he just so happened to walk in my office today!!! Apparently he’s one of my coworker’s students… wicked!!! His English wasn’t very good and I’m sure he’s been asked a million questions about competing in the Olympics but I was so curious to ask him what he felt like when he was nexted to compete. Instead however, I stood there looking at him. He looked up and so I gave him a huge congrats, smiled and gave him the thumbs up.

2. Guess who else I just found out is also a student at my school… two members from the band 2pm, Park Jae Bum and Ok Taek Yeon!!! Very cool. See, Cheonan isn’t so countryville after all… hehehe… take that Seoul!

3. Exams started today for my students and so they all waited for me nervously outside the classroom. I wanted so badly to squeeze their cheeks and tell them, “Ohhh, you look sooooo cute!”… hehehe.

4. Much appreciation to my students, I tell ya, they REALLY pulled it off and blew me away with their exams. The task was relatively simple, they had to create a 2-3 minute dialogue between a tourist and a taxi driver. There were students posing as famous celebrities, tourists who got into verbal fights with the taxi driver, others who made their tourists rude or broken hearted. I was really impressed and so it made for an awesome first day of exams!!!

5. Having my students do their exams in partners means half the time required, bonus for me cause this means I leave school early and arrive at boxing even earlier!

6. Whipped off the top and dropped the drawers today for weigh-in at boxing.

7. My eating today was super clean, I ate my meals exactly at the times planned, and I felt no cravings… yet. The cravings will come, I know, but the satisfaction of proving my buddy wrong and winning this beat is what reminds me to stay focused.

8. Tonight I had a first… I actually left my house and ventured out to socialize… hehehe. Later in the evening I headed over to Side Salad’s house for a movie. He leaves just around the corner from where I use to leave in Ssangyong-Dong, back when I worked at a hagwan some three years ago. The whole neighbourhood has changed and so I felt kind of uncomfortable being a stranger in a place I use to love.

9. Problems with my movies and his laptop so the movie was a no go but with all those English channels on his TV, wow, I’m jealous… hehehe. Side Salad tried to make small talk but once my eyes hit the TV screen, I was like a horse with blinders on. Now I know why I don’t watch TV; I’d get nothing done if I did. Finally got to see what all the hype about the show CSI was about. That show’s great!!!

10. Am seriously thinking that I have some major social issues… I’m joking, well, not really. I don’t really like hanging out at people’s houses and I especially don’t like using their bathrooms. I held out like a super trooper for about an hour until I finally returned home… hehehe.

QUESTION OF THE DAY...
Do you have any quirks?

QUOTE OF THE DAY...
The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.
-- Sigmund Freud